The Medical and Physical Journal: Containing the Earliest Information on Subjects of Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Natural History ..., Volume 24R. Phillips, 1810 |
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... quantity of pebbles , it is presumed that this species of squalus affords the connect- ing link in the gradation of animal life , between the whale and the cartilaginous fishes . Upon tracing the 6th ventricle of the brain , which ...
... quantity of pebbles , it is presumed that this species of squalus affords the connect- ing link in the gradation of animal life , between the whale and the cartilaginous fishes . Upon tracing the 6th ventricle of the brain , which ...
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... quantity of effused lymph . In some cases , red vessels may be seen running across the opake body ; but these are not the vessels which nourish it , but ramifica tions of the cerebral artery of the retina . When the dis- ease advances ...
... quantity of effused lymph . In some cases , red vessels may be seen running across the opake body ; but these are not the vessels which nourish it , but ramifica tions of the cerebral artery of the retina . When the dis- ease advances ...
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... quantity , made into ca- taplasm with barley flour , and a species of lichen not correctly described , is applied over the navel . In one instance , tolerably authenticated , and where the patient had filled after paracentesis , the ...
... quantity , made into ca- taplasm with barley flour , and a species of lichen not correctly described , is applied over the navel . In one instance , tolerably authenticated , and where the patient had filled after paracentesis , the ...
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... quantity of calomel she had before taken , with the subsequent in- unction of the ointment , has brought on a ptyalism . Her gums do not appear much affected , but as she feels a sore- ness about her mouth , and her tongue is swelled ...
... quantity of calomel she had before taken , with the subsequent in- unction of the ointment , has brought on a ptyalism . Her gums do not appear much affected , but as she feels a sore- ness about her mouth , and her tongue is swelled ...
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... quantity . Monday 14. The spasms came on last night , and con- tinued the whole of this day in the most violent degree , particularly in the abdominal muscles and diaphragm . In the course of the evening she threw up some black jelly ...
... quantity . Monday 14. The spasms came on last night , and con- tinued the whole of this day in the most violent degree , particularly in the abdominal muscles and diaphragm . In the course of the evening she threw up some black jelly ...
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Page 460 - Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 386 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 521 - JBryce proposes that, a second inoculation be performed about the sixth day after the first, the vesicle produced by this second inoculation is accelerated in its progress, so as to arrive at maturity, and again fade, at nearly the same time as the affection arising from the first inoculation. • Mr. B. considers the acceleration of the second...
Page 31 - ... most conversant with dogs. On the continent, I find it has been known for a much longer period. It is as contagious among dogs, as the small-pox, measles, or scarlet fever among the human species ; and the contagious miasmata, like those arising from the diseases just mentioned, retain their infectious properties a long time after separation from the distempered animal.
Page 397 - ... the skin. October 23. His pulse continued full, and the arm was very painful, though reduced in size. The vesications had burst, and the exposed cutis was dressed with white ointment. Stools were procured by an opening medicine. He took some veal and porter for dinner ; the wine was left off. In the evening he had a saline draught with antimonial wine. October 24. There was no material change. October 25. His pulse had increased in frequency, but in other respects he was nearly the same. His...
Page 489 - ... seen apparently to rise in the tube that contains it, because a portion of its gravity is then employed in occasioning its descent along with the vessel ; and accordingly, if it were confined in a tube closed at bottom, it would no longer press with its whole weight upon the lower end. In the same manner, and for the same reason, the blood no longer presses downwards with its whole weight, and will be driven upwards by the elasticity which before was merely sufficient to support it.
Page 460 - Tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers' stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned tobacco, the...
Page 490 - ... mechanical effect upon the stomach, and had experienced immediate relief from a slight degree of sea-sickness, by lying down upon the deck, with his head towards the stem of the vessel ; by means of which, upon pitching, he was in the attitude of a person descending backwards in a swing. " Whether the stomach be or be not thus primarily affected, or only by sympathy with the brain, the sensation of sinking is in all cases referred directly to the stomach, which is seized with such instantaneous...
Page 398 - Oo outside outside of the elbow, which was opened, and half a pint of reddish-brown matter was discharged with sloughs of cellular membrane floating in it. The lower part of the arm became much smaller, but the upper part continued tense. A poultice was applied to the wound. The lower portion of the arm and the fore-arm were covered with circular stripes of soap cerate. He was ordered to take the bark, and allowed wine and porter. October 30. The redness and swelling of the upper part of the arm...
Page 303 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury: The Memorial and Petition of Gustavus Vassa a black Man, late Commissary to the black Poor going to Africa. humbly sheweth, That your Lordships...